Sacred Street Art.

Peace y'all

I want to thank Yarncoture for posting me on her Treasury. I don' t feel like I've done much work to deserve a spotlight on someone's page. Thank you very much....

Just wanted to drop a little ditty I found entitled Sacred Street Art. It' s about a graffiti artist named Mohammed Ali from England, who was so touched by a family tragedy in the Bronx, he flew all the way over to do a mural in their memory.

Take care, I gotta go take care of this cold......Peace
Sacred Street Art from Mohammed Ali - Aerosol Arabic on Vimeo.

Red Tape!!!! ARRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!

Peace Y'all,

It's 5:56pm, and I just took a much needed rest, after going to the library, then to the art store to pick up a couple of items, and finally the store. I had planned to put some textures on a panel, but the weather became cool and windy. Texas weather is very unpredictable.

Today I was watching a video of rapper KRS-One speaking about the differences between rap today and the days of old. He spoke about the digital age and downloading music. Believe it or not visual artists kinda fit in that same mold.

Visual artists also suffer from the digital age as well. Right now anime and manga are two of the hottest visual art forms out there, and just like rap music, it is very accessible and easy to download and pop up on your computer in the form of screen savers for computer and cell phone, posters, t-shirts, you name it. And anybody can do it, there are books and other items teaching people how to draw manga.

It has its place in the art world no doubt, but it can also be very disposable too as a result of corporations shoving one particular product down the throats of people instead of offering diversity. Pretty soon people will get tiresome and the people will look for something else. And artists like me will still be here ready to receive the people with a smile on my face asking "Where ya been dog?"

Lesson learned: Never base you career on fulfilling the desires of people. Desires are infinite. Keep substance in your work.

I was reading a very interesting book called Taking the Leap awhile back, about ways to kick start your art career, and the author of the book mentioned the Internet and its effectiveness on selling art. She mentioned one of the problems of the internet is copyright infringement, and gave an example of how she posted one of her pieces on her site, only to find out awhile later, four other online galleries were showing her piece without permission. She has since taken care of the situation, but it gives me shivers to know somebody else may be profiting off my work. Not that money is the main concern for me, because it is not, but the principle of the matter of somebody advertising your work on their site, which means most likely they are printing your work on other forms of media and you are unaware of anything. That's the society we live in.

So getting copyrights and trademarks are necessary, although at times I still have to find ways to trick up the picture to prevent theft, like watermarks and taking the pictures at different angles to prevent this madness. I hate this because I want people to enjoy the full flavor of the work itself. And it can slow down the creative process......

But in the meantime, that's what I'm working with...

Take care y'all.....

Are you with me?

Peace ya'll

It's 4:56am, and I am preparing for a weekend, which does not include much, but hey, at least I don't have to work. I have a lot of work to do here at the lab(as I call it), and I don't know where to begin, isn't it GREAT? At times I have tons of ideas popping off the top of my head, and sometimes I need to take it down a bit, so I'll probably cool down with some Speed Racer, Krush Groove or Def Poetry ya know?

I haven't received any notices from the South Dallas Cultural Center about the latest exhibits. I may just tiptoe down there. It's been a while since I've been there. Last year I met some great artists like Frank Frazier, who did an excellent exhibition about the slaveships. He actually had a room with shackles and objects he received from his latest trip from Africa.

Then there was Chuck Siler, who is originally from New Orleans, but moved to Dallas. He is also a political cartoonist, but it was his paintings from the Katrina situation that inspired me...

The best one I remember was the Bruthas with Something to Say, a collection of three artists, who worked with wood, canvas, you name it. There were pictures of homeless people, street people, it was great.

But this year this brother has a whole lot to say, and you will see it right here. Stay tuned for the meaning behind the Lifestyles of the Ignored series..

Take care peeps....

Welcome!!!!

I want to welcome you all to my new blog, filled with information about my artwork, also some interesting news clips, and other things. I hope I can make the visit worthwhile.

I had a blog previously, but I chose to take it down after a couple of months. However with some renewed interest from some friends on Twitter and Etsy, I felt it was time to renew the blog, with a few twists. Plus with the advent of RSS, my Iseecolor family can access this site as well. I have a lot of things going on. We are just getting started.

And now, ya boy got DSLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. Yeah boyeeeeeee!!!!!

Later.